Ecclesiastes 4:1-2

Young's Literal Translation

4 And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors [is] power, and they have no comforter.

² And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.